Digital Art Journaling

So awhile back I heard about art journaling through Sarah Pehrson on YouTube. If you don't know what art journaling is, just search for it on YouTube and you'll find a much better definition than I could provide here, sorry. XD For those who DO know what it is, once I heard of it I thought it would be a great way to collect images and text that interest me. I once did it the "traditional" way, but I got tired of the backings from those double-sided adhesive things (I don't know what I should call them... I used these things) covering the floor of my room. So, I decided to start doing it digitally! The ultimate goal is to print these out, but color printer ink is expensive as hell so I don't know how much that will happen, if it happens at all. XP But I really love doing it, and it's given me a place to put cool artwork, funny pictures, interesting blog posts, etc. I confess I don't do any actual "journaling," so the term "art journal" is kind of a misnomer. I just like collaging.

I have a template that's roughly the actual size of an 8.5 x 11 piece of paper. I forget what the DPI is, but I'll probably share my template somewhere in case anyone else wants to do this. Once I finish a page, I put it on a PDF. It gets shrunk down a little, but that way I can arrange the PDFs in a "book" to put on my tablet if I want. That, and the formatting for a PDF is the same as formatting to print, and that is the supposed goal.

Anyway, if you're interested, I converted some of the PDF files to images again and shrunk them down so I can show you some examples. (I don't think any of the pictures I used are mine, and I'm not trying to steal anything; I'm just sharing what I did with them in the hopes of inspiring someone else. I call fair use.)

Here's some art I found that I liked.

Some of my favorite pieces by one of my favorite artists, Joseph Vargo.

Paintings of cats.

My two favorite pieces by George Stubbs, another favorite artist of mine.

The Nightmare duo by Johann Heinrich Fuseli, two of my favorite paintings.

Victoria Frances is another favorite artist of mine. 

 I also really like book covers, so...

The Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter series by Laurell K. Hamilton

The Mercy Thompson series by Patricia Briggs

The Alpha and Omega series by Patricia Briggs

The Twilight books by Stephenie Meyer. I know, the books are terrible, but I confess I love the covers.

A couple of miscellaneous ones:

Screen caps of Jack Dawson's drawings from the movie Titanic. 

I just like looking at pictures of books. I've only read one in this particular series but I think the covers and spines are lovely.

Again, just like looking at books. These are all by Laurell K. Hamilton

 At one point I thought I was going to use art journal pages for reference material, but then I realized that I wanted to look at printed pictures and that printing in black and white was far preferable to printing colored pictures. Again, expensive as hell. But some photos I just like on an aesthetic level.

Somali cats

Snowshoe cats

Wildcats

I like copying pictures of celebrities. Here's Amy Lee

I forget what this actress is, but she was in the Netflix series Borgia.

Love that dress. <3

Silver and gold horses!

 Last but not least, some of my favorite animated characters.

My beloved Elsa. <3

Belle, one of my favorite disney heroines

More pictures of Belle. Can you tell I love that moon brush?

Nala, another favorite disney heroine.

The gym leader Sabrina from the Pokemon anime. Always thought she was neat.

That's all I'll show for no. Like I said I mainly just do collages but there's a lot of different kinds of art journaling; it's really neat if you want to check it out! There are some great videos on YouTube.